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Annabel Karmel's reindeer cookies

• Annabel Karmel

Published: November 8, 2023 at 2:22 PM

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Makes 10 cookies

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 20 mins

plus decorating time

Bring Rudolph, Dancer, Prancer and the rest of Santa's reindeer team to biscuit life in this cute Christmas recipe from the UK's bestselling children's food expert

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Who knew Curly Wurlys could make such brilliant reindeer antlers? This ingenious decorating idea based around a simple cookie recipe is perfect for Christmas baking with kids. Stick on your favourite Santa/reindeer tunes to sing along to as you decorate – and save the biggest glacé cherry for the Rudolph cookie...

Ingredients

• 350g plain flour
• 2 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp mixed spice
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 175g butter
• 150g soft light brown sugar
• 4 tbsp golden syrup

For the decoration

• Curly Wurlys
• glacé cherries
• M & Ms
• black writing icing pen

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Method

• step 1

  Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4. Measure the flour, spices, salt, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder into a bowl

• step 2

  Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Pour this into the dry ingredients and mix. Lightly knead together to make a dough

• step 3

  Form the dough into 10 balls. Pinch out one end of each ball to form a point, then flatten it with your hand to make a head shape

• step 4

  Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until the cookies are lightly golden but still slightly soft

• step 5

  Using a skewer, make a slit on either side of the cookie heads for slotting in the antlers, then leave to cool for a few minutes

• step 6

  Decorate each cookie with lengths of Curly Wurly for the antlers and halved glacé cherries for the nose. Take 2 M&Ms of the same colour for the eyes and dot each with black icing for the pupils

Pic: Annabel Karmel

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